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Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of this Constitution, the National Assembly may make laws for the peace, order and good government of Belize. (Sec. 68)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be eligible to hold office in the Olbiil Era Kelulau, a person must be:
(1) a citizen;
(2) not less than twenty-five (25) years of age;
(3) a resident of Palau for not less than five (5) years immediately preceding the election; and
(4) a resident of the district in which he wishes to run for office for not less than one (1) year immediately preceding the election. (Art. IX, Sec. 6)
Legislature
- EnglishElections of the National Assembly and community councils, as well as referenda shall be carried out on the basis of universal, equal, free, and direct suffrage, by secret vote. (Art. 7)
- ArmenianԱզգային ժողովի և համայնքների ավագանիների ընտրությունները, ինչպես նաև հանրաքվեներն անցկացվում են ընդհանուր, հավասար, ազատ և ուղղակի ընտրական իրավունքի հիման վրա՝ գաղտնի քվեարկությամբ: (Հոդված 7)
Legislature
- English…
2. Each constituency shall freely elect any person, subject to this Constitution and an Act of Parliament, to represent it as a member of the National Assembly in such manner as may be prescribed by this Constitution or an Act of Parliament. (Sec. 62)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Legislative Power is vested in one Chamber: The Chamber of Deputies. (Art. 16)
- Arabicتتولى السلطة المشترعة هيئة واحدة هي مجلس النواب. (المادّة 16)
Legislature
- EnglishEvery national having the right to vote in elections to Althingi and an unblemished reputation is eligible to be elected to Althingi.
… (Art. 34) - IcelandicKjörgengur við kosningar til Alþingis er hver sá ríkisborgari sem kosningarrétt á til þeirra og hefur óflekkað mannorð.
… (34. gr.)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Chamber of Deputies is composed of members elected in direct voting by electoral districts. The respective constitutional organic law will determine the number of deputies, the electoral districts and the form of their election.
… (Art. 47) - SpanishLa Cámara de Diputados está integrada por miembros elegidos en votación directa por distritos electorales. La ley orgánica constitucional respectiva determinará el número de diputados, los distritos electorales y la forma de su elección.
… (Art. 47)
Legislature
- English(1) The Legislative Assembly shall be composed of –
(a) the representatives of the nobles;
(b) the representatives of the people; and
(c) all members of the Cabinet.
(2) Cabinet Ministers who are elected representatives shall, unless dismissed after impeachment under clause 75, remain as members of the Legislative Assembly and representatives in their respective electoral constituency during their appointment as Minister. (Clause 59) - Tongan(1) Ko e Fale Alea kuo pau ke kau ki ai ‘a e —
(a) kau fakafofonga ‘o e kau nopele;
(b) kau fakafofonga ‘o e kakai; mo e
(c) kotoa ‘o e kau memipa ‘o e Kapineti.
(2) Kuo pau ki he kau Minisita ‘o e Kapineti ‘a ia ko e kau fakafofonga kuo fili, tukukehe ka tuku ki tu‘a hili hono faka‘ilo ‘i he kupu 75, ke hoko atu pe ko e kau memipa ‘o e Fale Alea pea kei fakafofonga pe ‘i honau vahenga fili takitaha lolotonga honau fakanofo ko e Minisita. (Kupu 59)
Legislature
- English
1. The National Council shall consist of twenty-five members comprising:
(a) One member elected by the voters in each of the twenty Dzongkhags; and
(b) Five eminent persons nominated by the Druk Gyalpo.
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3. A candidate to or a member of the National Council shall not belong to any political party.
… (Art. 11) - Dzongkha
༡) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ནང་ འཐུས་མི་ཉེར་ལྔ་ཡོད་མིའི་གྲངས་ཚུ་ཚུད་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ རྫོང་ཁག་ཉི་ཤུ་རེ་རེ་བཞིན་གྱི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་པའི་ འཐུས་མི་རེ་དང་།
ཁ༽ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་གདམ་ཁ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཁྱད་ལྡན་གྱི་མི་ངོ་ལྔ།
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༣) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་དོན་ལུ་འདེམས་ངོ་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགས་ནི་ མེད།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༡༽
Legislature
- English1. The Assembly of the Republic is the highest legislative body in the Republic of Mozambique.
2. The Assembly of the Republic determines the norms that conduct the functioning of the State and the economic and social life through laws and deliberations of generic character. (Art. 168) - Portuguese1. A Assembleia da República é o mais alto órgão legislativo na República de Moçambique.
2. A Assembleia da República determina as normas que regem o funcionamento do Estado e a vida económica e social através de leis e deliberações de carácter genérico. (Art. 168)